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Since 1998, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been fighting a civil war with rebels who are supported by the surrounding countries of Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi...
...insisting that the conference properly address its global mandate, rather than fixating on the issues of racism in Israeli-Palestinian relations at the expense of other issues. After all, the conference could just as easily spend a whole week discussing ethnic violence in Indonesia or the Balkans or Burundi or England, slavery in the Sudan or the rights of indigenous peoples throughout the Americas. And too much focus on the Middle East might even help some governments keep their own skeletons out of the limelight...
...BURUNDI Coup Attempt Fails Soldiers loyal to Burundian President Pierre Buyoya foiled a coup attempt by junior military officers. Calling themselves the Patriotic Youth Front, a band of about 40 soldiers seized control of state radio and aired a taped statement that said, "The government that is killing people is over." But within hours the rebel troops had surrendered. Buyoya, who was in Gabon holding talks to end Burundi's civil war, returned home the next day without incident. Fighting between ethnic Tutsi and Hutu in Burundi has killed at least 200,000 people since...
...That pragmatic, measured approach - noted by Western and African observers in Kinshasa - may help bring an end to a war in which six neighboring countries, the Congolese army and various rebel groups have carved a country the size of Western Europe into a jumble of fiefdoms. Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi back rebel groups fighting Kinshasa, while Angola, Zimbabwe and Namibia support the government in return for lucrative mining concessions...
...such meteorological events occurred within the context of a Shakespearean play or a Greek drama, the bizarre weather in Britain--concurrent with unusually severe typhoons in Taiwan, floods in Bangladesh, fires in Italy and droughts in Burundi and Iran--they would have stood as an omen portending the death of a king or the end of an empire. Humans have long interpreted the wrath of the (literal) heavens as punishment for their earthly transgressions. If our modern, secular selves were to sit up and take notice of ten thousand years of weather interpretation, what evil deed might be to blame...